The Church in USA—Georgia

Missionaries for the Church arrived in Georgia in 1843 to preach and later to campaign for the Prophet Joseph Smith’s United States presidential bid. One early convert to the Church donated land and built a chapel at Mormon Springs in Haralson County.

By 1908, Church membership in Georgia was approximately 6,800. The first temple to be built in the Southern states was completed in 1983 in Atlanta, Georgia. Atlanta Latter-day Saints gave disaster relief to the community after the 1992 Hurricane Andrew in Albany; the flooding in 1994, when some 6,000 Church volunteers assisted homeowners; and to the Gulf Coast after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005.

Here are a few facts about the Church today in Georgia:

Membership	71,268
Missions	3
Temples	1
Congregations	137
Family History Centers	44

Information from Newsroom at www.lds.org.

Photograph by Jed Clark